Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of PAPER AND IRON, THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD, THE PITY OF WAR, THE CASH NEXUS, EMPIRE and COLOSSUS, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for British television: "Empire," "American Colossus" and "The War of the World." He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Books by Niall Ferguson

Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist

by Niall Ferguson - Biography, History, Nonfiction, Politics

No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. He has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every “telcon” for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissinger’s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.